brucealmighy said:

Doesn’t matter if they play in round 2 or round 4? The matchup was inevitable

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kpjasion said:

Actually that 2015 Semifinal between Loyola and Palatine is a great example of "any given day anything can happen". Should Palatine have come within a field goal of Loyola normally? No way. But, it was an insane day weatherwise and that turned out to be the great equalizer. The game was supposed to be a 1pm kickoff, but was delayed until 7pm (and really started later than that) because of an insane snowstorm. The week before Palatine beat Brother Rice at home, and it was a beautiful fall Saturday afternoon. Only needed a light jacket. By the time the Loyola game kicked off - same spot just a week later - there were mounds of snow piled feet high around the field. See the YouTube link below. But "that's why they play the games", because on paper there's no way , but on field turf there's sometimes a way.

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4Afan said:

The teams below are all 4-4, play today, are all favored, and all larger than Morris. So if they all win that pushes Morris down. I have them as the smallest team in 5A out of 255 qualifiers so if one 4-5 team gets in that is larger than Morris that may make them the largest 4A team. All that being said, bank on them being 5A.

Chicago (Westinghouse College Prep)
Chicago (Perspectives/Leadership) [Coop]
Aurora (Marmion Academy)
Chicago (Noble/Bulls)

IF, and that's a big if, Morris were to play and beat Highland the Triad game would be at Morris.

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4Afan said:

Love me some Wilmo but not sure they make much noise in 3A, but hope I'm wrong

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Irishfan90 said:

I get LWE would probably kill Palatine, good for them. Loyola was supposed to do the same to Palatine in 2015 in the semis, Palatine lost 24-22, and if I remember correctly, they couldn’t convert a 2 pt conversion to tie it. You play the games for a reason. Again, I know LWE would kill them, but crazier things have happened. Don’t know what the point of trashing Palatine is in a Barrington Palatine thread. They could certainly make some noise in the playoffs if the QB is healthy. Good luck to all in the playoffs.

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TDCumm16 said:

Wow. Great draw for Byron *eyeroll*

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rink62221 said:

Montini-Byron probably in the second round in 3A. Winner likely gets Princeton in the quarters.. Winner of that probably gets Wilmington in the semis. What a road

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Quags57 said:

I get it. I originally put on my chart that it was 4th and forever. Then, they moved the sticks.

Just saying what the official told me.

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RogerRabbit87 said:

If you watch back the stream that isn’t what happened. That’s what made it so confusing

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jha618 said:

I was sitting behind an althoff parent today. They said the staff had already brought it up about sitting him next week.

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EstablishTheRun59 said:

O’Brien going on one of his weird yearly everyone should make the playoffs rant. We are ready for the brackets now.

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Quags57 said:

That's what I was told by the sideline official

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PowerI66 said:

I could be wrong, but I think there were a few instances of LWE losing a stud QB and that changing the potential championship team. Once in the finals and maybe once in the semis? I think it's fair to question what could have been and have faith in what the team was leading up to that point. The only fact is that we will truly never know.

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kpjasion said:

Yeah. as it turns out a Barrington guy actually recovered, ran a few yards with the ball, got hit and re-fumbled, and a Palatine guy recovered.

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Irishfan90 said:

I get LWE would probably kill Palatine, good for them. Loyola was supposed to do the same to Palatine in 2015 in the semis, Palatine lost 24-22, and if I remember correctly, they couldn’t convert a 2 pt conversion to tie it. You play the games for a reason. Again, I know LWE would kill them, but crazier things have happened. Don’t know what the point of trashing Palatine is in a Barrington Palatine thread. They could certainly make some noise in the playoffs if the QB is healthy. Good luck to all in the playoffs.

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